Show A YOUNG MOTHERS TRIALS feeling Feell ngn of or a woman who vilo has pared passed through the molt most trying ordeal here Is what a woman who has brought up a large family and is grandmother to many children said tho the other day there la is no one in the world to whom all the sympathy in my nature reaches out aa it d does fitt to a woman who is a mother for the first time especially a young woman one who has always depended upon rome one else usually upon her own mother when she finds herself left alone with the awful responsibility in the cradle she was gray haired with a face full of soft lines that wrote her tier life history she was turning over the contents of a bureau drawer that had been for long years closed and locked she took up a tiny gown yellow with time and perfumed with lavender how ilow well I 1 remember my first experience she went on the baby was very welcome and such a fine line boy everybody praised him his ills father was justly proud of him and b his Is mother cried for joy she turned the little gown over and seemed lost in meditation it was all joy while the nurse remained 11 she continued continua 1 I can see her now gathering up her things to go to another casse I 1 can see the young mother pale paled faint hearted forlorn watching the kind soul who had been more than mother to her aa oa she folded up the long apron and rolled it around her night slippers I 1 longed to grasp them and beg her not to leave me she knew the struggle that was going on she never once looked she had bad been there before the girl mothers heart was in her throat swelling to bursting when it became normal it had become the heart of a woman wo manwell well launched upon the sea of maternity the young mother who bad had so short a time before shed tears of joy over her first born now cried in earnest because she know what to do with him the first ordeal was the bath it seemed so easy in the hands bands of the nurse so dreadfully difficult in mine next came the visitor with advice every one who called came tor for the express purpose of supervising making suggestions correcting mistakes and inspecting the flannels they asked to see am his ills feet a mere pretext to find out what he had on and how much embroidery adorned his garments one said you pin him too tight he can hardly breathe in an agony of fear his clothes were all loosened whereat the next inspector who happened in would exclaim you pin him so loose he will be pot bellied this last horror borror waa was of all calamities to ba be avol avoided led and again his clothes were tightened the nest next good soul would recommend saffron tea tor for rash I 1 would no sooner give it than some well disposed caller would rehearse the benefits of peppermint and aniseed ten tea when be needed to be fed I 1 was simply swamped everybody had an experience to relate and no two experiences were alike one good angel said you make liia ills food too rich another you dont make it rich enough one said giva give paregoric another said dont ono one said look I ook out for croup another said Me velles aslea are in the next house then his ills father would make suggestions 11 1 I told you so three weeks ago ho he would say when a new experiment was under way you believe me but when some old hen comes la in and cackles you take her advice when you scorned mine so we learn to be mothers as we learn everything else by experience went on the woman with gray hair and the wrinkles and sometimes when I 1 meet a pale w weary eary looking young mother trundling a baby carriage I 1 feel like saying to h her er come my dear let me take your baby and keep it tor for you tonight so you can get a good nights mt for you need IV it 11 then she folded up the little gown yellow with time and perfumed with lavender and laid it away in the drawer then she wiped her spectacles for they were moist new york recorder |